Tea tours and forest visits
At the origin of tea
A FOREST HAS NO DOORS
We welcome you among our tea trees all-year long, to savour all aspects of the terroir with your own senses. Each visit is a full immersion in the Yunnanese terroir, in full respect of its land, people, and culture.
We offer different kind of group trips to visit some of the most important tea places of China.
Each tour has a different theme, following nature, seasonality, and simply our heart.
Explore this page for the latest schedule, and contact us to book a talk and find the solution that better suits your needs.
Spring Tour, Yunnan
March 9th -March 22nd, 2025
fully booked
Itinerary and booking
China tea tour
May 1st - May20th, 2025
Itinerary and booking
Summer Tour, West China
August 2025 (save the date)
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Customised visits:
Bookings are open January 2025, March 25th-April 5th, and June-September 2025.
Seasonality
Xishuangbanna is enjoyable all year-long, with a very mild sub-tropical climate that express itself in a moltitude of colors.
October - January
The rain in October starts to diminish until a dry January; the temperature are mild, with fresh nights (13-18°C) and warm days (19-25 °C).
Ideal for any kind of visit, at all altitude.
February - April
February and March are the dryest months, and between mid-March and mid-April the tea season is at its peak: expect hotter days (max 30-33°C in Jinghong, 28°C in the mountain) and a dry weather, until the first rains arrives between late March and April.
May - September
The rainy season with its ever-changing skies, hues, and fragrances.
The new tea has been pressed and it is ready to be tasted and purchased.
Choose it if you like to feel the tropical fragrance on banana leaves, and you are ready to relax listening to the sound of the rain.
March 9th - March 22nd, 2025
Spring Tour
The tour starts at the vigil of spring, when the tea leaves, the trees and the mountains all are waiting for the first rain: the buds will sprout, and new fragrances and aromas will be discovered.
We explore all the most important mountains and tea-forests of Yunnan: we will brew together the best teas, we speak with the producers and assist them in their work, we walk their lands; we will be hosted by skilled pottery masters and professionals, we will attend to scholars' workshop on Gongfucha and Yixing, and we will live of our passion for tea.
May 1st - May 20th, 2025
China tea tours
This tour crosses the historical tea line of the east coast, before immersing in our Yunnan: it starts from Yixing, before proceeding to Huangshan and Qimen valley, where we visit extensively the most important production areas.
From there we travel to the Wuyishan valley, where we visit extensively the most important production areas, and from where we start to Tongmuguan, the birth-place of red tea, and Jianyang, the ancient site of production for the Jianzhang teaware, Tenmoku in Japanese.
For the second part of the tour we fly to our Yunnan, where we'll immerse in pu'er lands of Xishuangbanna, following the traces of pu'er tea from the ancient days until the contemporaneity.
august 2025
Summer tour
For this summer we have many ideas and inspirations; we will explore the mountains, we will hike and meditate, together with people we love.
It will be a new itinerary among teas and cultures, immersed in the Chinese west, where boundaries means few in front of culture, geography, and flavors.
We plan to publish the complete itinerary during Spring 2025; in the meanwhile fell free to write us to express your preferences: we will be happy to hear from you, and plan together our trip.
Experience Yunnan
Customized trips and long-term stay
Tailor your trip according to your favorite time to travel and the places you wish to visit: let us know about your plan and what you like the most, we are pleased to customise your time here according to your preferences.
We welcome long-term visitors for both professional improvements and collaborations. Xishuangbanna is an ideal base for living and breathing tea culture at any time of the day; every road leads you to a mountain of tea and every conversation will leave you with new ideas and inspiration.
Long-term stays are subject to project approval and fit into our annual program.
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